Wally McClure, MVP extraordinaire and ASP Insider, just published a short book about the new features in ASP.NET 3.5 SP1. It is a short and to the point read that should get you started in no time. I wouldn’t have shown web service access as the main advantage of jQuery myself (the selector and animation support adds more value for ASP.NET Ajax developers) but that’s a minor thing, and there are plenty ofother resources to learn about jQuery. Topics in Wally’s book include:

There areplentyofoptionstotestJavaScriptcode. My goal here is not especially to add to this long list but I needed something for my samples that was brain dead simple to understand and that I could redistribute without any concerns about licensing (this is licensed under the very liberal MS-PL). I just think it’s good practice to distribute tests with sample code because it promotes TDD and helps to understand the intent of the code.